Metropica condo gets general contractor

Tutor Perini Building Corp. has been hired as the general contractor for the first condominium tower at the Metropica development in Sunrise.

The 28-story YOO at Metropica will have 263 units priced from $397,000 to $1.3 million. Site work began last year, and construction of the building is expected to begin in January.

Seven other condos are planned in the coming years.

When it’s completed in the next five to seven years, the $1.5 billion development at Sawgrass Expressway and Sunrise Boulevard is expected to have 2,250 residential units, a hotel, 400,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment and 650,000 square feet of offices.